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Christianity
Credo: "I Believe. . ."
Credo: "I Believe. . ."
Summary: Statements of belief unite Christians in their articulation of shared commitments. While the Apostles' Creed and
the Nicene Creed are the oldest and most universal creeds of the church, the process of articulating what it means to give
one's heart to Christ has continued to the present.One of the distinctive features of Christianity is its emphasis on a creed, a summary statement of faith.
The Latin term credo is often translated today as "I believe..." but it is important to remember that its
literal meaning is "I give my heart..." It is language of the heart, a profound expression of commitment,
not simply a list of statements to which one gives intellectual assent. When the early church was being
persecuted, commitment to the way of Christ was often dangerous, requiring true courage.Creeds came into use as part of the rite of baptism. In this rite of initiation, a man or woman would take
off old clothes, put on new white baptismal clothing, and become a Christian by a ritual bath and the
affirmation of commitment to the Chri stian faith. The credo or cre ed expressed that commitment.Among the oldest creeds of the church is the Apostles' Creed, composed about 150 CE and used ritually
at the time of Christian baptism, and starts, "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven
and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, Our Lord..." Through baptism, one was spiritually
"born again." While the term "born-again" has acquired the resonance of a dramatic and often emotion-
laden conversion in modern American Christianity, it has a much wider and older significance for the church. To be "born again" is what it means to be a baptized Christian. Christians in the early church had to answer for themselves the question Christ asked his disciples,"Who do you say that I am?" In the councils of the early church, leaders met to come to a common mind
about their faith. The Council of Nicaea, called by the Emperor Constantine in 325 CE, was the mostimportant of these early councils. In the previous centuries, some had proposed that Jesus Christ was not
really human at all, but was God appearing to be human; others had proposed that he was not reallydivine, but only a human being. The early church rejected these views as it worked together to articulate
its faith: that Jesus Christ was fully God and fully human. The council also worked to express themeaning of God as threefold, a trinity, encompassing three aspects or "persons" - the Father, the Son
Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. At Nicaea, the church articulated the complexity of the divine mystery:
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that the one God is the transcendent Creator, the fully human Christ, and the indwelling energy, fire, and
breath of the Spirit.While the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are the oldest and most universal creeds of the church,
the process of articulating what it means to give one's heart to Christ has continued to the present. New
creeds are written in each new era. For example, the United Church of Christ in the U.S.A. phrases its
belief in Christ this way: "In Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Lord, you have
come to us and sha red our comm on lot, c onquering sin and death, and reconci li ng the world toyourself." In El Salvador, Christians affirm their faith in Christ, tested in the fires of economic and
political struggle: "We believe in Christ, crucified again and again in the suffering of the poor..."
Through the ages, there have been many doctrinal controversies, but the act of confessing one's faith has
remained constant. For Christ ians to say "I believe..." is not only an articulation of fundamental
doctrines, but also a personal commitment to the way of Christ.quotesdbs_dbs12.pdfusesText_18